The Weight of Loss: How One Family's Tragedy Illuminates Australia's Heart Disease Crisis Taylor Smith keeps an image on her laptop that contrasts sharply with the reality she faced six months ago.
It shows her parents, happy and carefree, basking in the glow of her premiership success. But their happiness was short lived; Shaun Smith, Taylor's father, died suddenly from a heart attack at 52.
The loss devastated the family, but it had an unexpected effect on Taylor.